Mike Streicher

2018 NMARHoF inductee
passed away November 6 2019 

We are sad to report that 2018 NMARHoF inductee Mike Streicher passed away from a heart attack on November 6 2019.


Second generation midget racer Michael “Mike” Streicher experienced success in multiple aspects of our sport. The son of three-time United States Auto Club (USAC) car owner champion Jim Streicher, the Findlay, Ohio native who attended his first midget race at the age of three, grew up to claim USAC midget championships as a driver, car owner, mechanic and a car builder. 

In 1983, Mike captured his first series title with USAC as a car owner and mechanic for driver champion Rich Vogler then in 1988 at Kokomo Speedway in Indiana, he won his first USAC midget feature as a driver. In 1990 Streicher won the Hoosier Dome Invitational, the during the 1990 USAC season, Streicher battled defending champion Russ Gamester and Jeff Gordon and wound up third in the USAC national midget championship while his father claimed the car owners title.  

1991 was Mike Streicher’s year as he raced to the USAC national midget driver title after a season long duel with Stevie Reeves. Enroute to his drivers’ championship and third car owner championship Mike claimed three feature victories during the season in his own Hawk chassis. 

In addition to his six career USAC midget wins, Mike scored countless midget feature wins in many other series -the National Alliance of Midget Auto Racing (NAMAR), ARCA (Automobile Racing Club of America), the Northeast Midget Association (NEMA), the American Race Drivers Club (ARDC), as well as back-to-back UMRA (United Midget Racing Association) three-quarter midget feature wins indoors in Salem Virginia in November 1985. 

Mike Streicher remains active in the sport of auto racing with his Hawk chassis company and his work as a professor at University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) College of Applied Technologies High Performance Motorsports program to educate future racers and mechanics. Based upon his lifetime of accomplishments and continuing devotion to our sport we are proud to welcome Mike Streicher into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame.